It’s rather sad that we’ll have to ask you to rack your brains and remember the Russian plane that went down in Egypt on October 31, I guess we only have the attention span to handle one or two tragedies at a time.

To jog your memory an Airbus A321 crashed in a mountainous region of Egypt and killed all 224 people on board, the plane breaking up in mid-air. Many speculated the crash was caused by a tail malfunction that dramatically lowered cabin pressure, although ISIS also claimed responsibility.

Now Russia have confirmed that the crash was caused by a terrorist attack and ISIS are pretty smug about the whole thing. This from Metro:

In the latest edition of its propaganda magazine Dabiq, printed in English, the group boasts that the bomb was enclosed in a Schweppes Gold pineapple juice.

Printed beside a photo of the wreckage, a picture shows three components laid out on a cloth which they supposedly used – though their claims cannot be verified by an independent body…

It is also mentions that Isis originally intended to target a plane ‘belonging to a nation in the American-led Western coalition against Isis’, but that later ‘the target was changed to a Russian plane’.

The Dabiq claims the bomb was ‘smuggled onto the airplane’, though further details remain scant.

I don’t know which is more disturbing, that ISIS could potentially manufacture bombs in soft drink cans or that they have an English language propaganda magazine.

The front cover from their latest edition, just by the way, is ambulance workers carting dead bodies from the scene in Paris. Absolute scum…

[source:metro]